Film Festival

The film festival surely lived up to the expectations I had for the show. There were the hilarious films, and the serious ones as well. Altogether it added up to a great time. My favorite two were Still Roommates, and Leaves.
Still Roommates talked about these two guys from lower Barclay who are runners for the track team. One of them wants to go running, but its in the middle of the winter and his roommate thinks its too cold and doesn't want to go. Then they battle back and forth with snippets of songs trying to sway each other into doing what they want to do. They used Don't Touch This, Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head, and a multitude of other songs which all added up to being the best movie of the festival. In my opinion of course.
The other great film of the night was Leaves. This was a different type of film. It was and animated type of film like Angela Anaconda, claymation, and Paper Mario all mixed in one. Its a long stretch but I understand what I mean. It was not a typical comedy, but there were some aspecs that were funny, like the way he walked, or his facial expressions, or the way that there were no words spoken at all. It was a film that just interested me. There were some other films that were more serious and very welll written like When There are No Words as well. But those two were the ones that stuck out the most to me.

Are You Serious?

Baby, baby, I'm taken with the notion
To love you with the sweetest of devotion
Baby, baby, my tender love will flow from
The bluest sky to the deepest ocean
Stop for a minute
Baby, I'm so glad you're mine, yeah
You're mine

Baby, baby, the stars are shinin' for you
And just like me, I'm sure that they adore you
Baby, baby, go walkin' through the forest
The birds above a-singin' you a chorus
Stop for a minute
Baby, they're so glad you're mine, oh yeah

And ever since the day
You put my heart in motion
Baby, I realize that there's
Just no getting over you

Baby, baby, in any kind of weather
I'm here for you always and forever
Baby, baby, no muscle man could sever
My love for you is true and it will never
Stop for a minute
Baby, I'm so glad you're mine

And ever since the day
You put my heart in motion
Baby, I realize
There's no getting over you

And ever since the day
You put my heart in motion
Baby, I realize that there's
Just no getting over you
Over you

Baby, baby, always and forever
Baby, I'm so glad
Here for you, baby
I'm so glad you're mine
Baby, I'm so glad

When I think about you, it makes me smile
Baby, baby, be mine
Baby, I'm so glad
Don't stop giving love
Don't stop, no
Baby, I'm so glad that you're mine
Baby, I'm so glad

Here we have the lyrics of Amy Grants controversial smash hit "Baby, Baby." Before the song came out Amy Grant was known as a Christian artist. One who wrote worship songs about Christ. And when the song debuted it came as a shock to the Christian radio stations. They were boycotting the song because it was not the typical stuff they were acustomed to. Now look at that time there are some reasons that I agree with it, and other reasons i don't.

Christian music had a certain type of standard in the 90's. And the song didn't really fit those, and that's understandable. But to boycott the song is wrong. It's a song about love. Christians do happen to fall in love and get married. Or maybe its a different type of love song for God. These critics believed she was going mainstream so she could make money. The only thing she was trying to do was make "family friendly" music that did not have any cursing, or references of sex. She wanted good music on the radio. If that is something to be persecuted for..then so be it.

Three Days and Three Nights

so i have to make a list of all the media i have taken in for the past three days......
Thursday
Television-Sportscenter, Cleveland Indians Game, Family Guy, Jeopardy, Cavaliers Game
Books-Challenging Minds
Music-Jay-Z, Linkin Park, Lecrae, Rascal Flatts,Grits, Superchicks, Fred Hammond, Avenged Sevenfold, Building 429, Jonas Brothers, Relient K
Internet-facebook, hotmail, espn fantasy baseball, sports illustrated, malone
Friday
Television-Sportscenter, Cleveland Indians, Malone College Station, Lingo, Man vs. Wild
Plays-Screwtape Letters
Music-Jay-Z, Linkin Park, Lecrae, Rascal Flatts,Grits, Superchicks, Fred Hammond, Avenged Sevenfold, Building 429, Jonas Brothers, Relient K, Fergie, Village People, Michael Jackson, *NSYNC, Marcia Griffith, and a whole lot more i can't remember
Internet-facebook, hotmail, espn fantasy baseball, sports illustrated, malone
Saturday
Television-sportscenter, cleveland indians, cleveland cavaliers, american gladiators, shark tales
Music-Jay-Z, Linkin Park, Lecrae, Rascal Flatts,Grits, Superchicks, Fred Hammond, Avenged Sevenfold, Building 429, Jonas Brothers, Relient K
Internet-facebook, hotmail, espn fantasy baseball, sports illustrated, malone, blogger, google
from what i can tell from the list i have a very scheduled life..i listen to pretty much the same stuff, watch the same shows, and visit the same sites on the web.i thought i was an interesting dude, but my life is just a scheduled list of things to do before i go to sleep, and then i do the same stuff the next day...but maybe i'm not as scheduled as i think. this all may be a result of being a college student, or maybe its a sign that i'm finally growing up..but not too much.

Musical Touches

so last class we had a huge discussion on music and how it effects the way we feel about certain parts of movies and television shows. i listened during the class and realized that i never really thought about music like that, so i put it to the test. early this morning, after the dance was over, i was laying in bed watching either animal planet or discovery channel and there was some show about monkeys on. this guy was in some remote forrest by himself and these apes in trees. now the guy had been walking around for a good ten minutes, with the monkeys jumping from tree to tree the whole time. he heard them, but was not able to see them and he became slightly frightened. i was totally fine because it wasn't me that had to worry about being attacked, but all of a sudden this scary music came on and my heart started to race. then i realized that i was in my room, by myself, in the dark. it really creeped me out, and then they put a picture up of a "demonic monkey" that they had computer generated and all the fear went away because it didn't look real at all. but the fact that i was fearless until the music came on made me realize that music plays a very important part in media. everytime you turn on the tv there is music. there are very few commercials without music. and if you hear that song that you can't get outta your head you by it on itunes or you just walk around with an annoying song in your head and you will always remember it as that geico song with the neanderthal walking through the airport...

Compare the News

so i was watching sportscenter, the news epicenter for all sports fans, to see what was happening in the world of sports when stuart scott says the browns have signed jamal lewis to a contract. now this was going on at the time where many other free agents were being signed also, so it just came in a huge segement with the other big stars going to new teams. to me this is a monumental event. i turned the channel to cbs around the time the local news was on and they were a little bit more excited about the signing, and so where the papers around town. it was tough to see the writers excitement though because it wasn't in my face at the time that it happened it was a day later. but the paper did have more inside information that sportscenter and the news did not have which made it a plus anyway. i sometimes wish sportscenter and the news would wait until they had all of the informaion instead of speculating or guessing what the next move will be. sometimes they may get it right, but most of the time they are way off and that makes me not trust them as much with the information that i get from them....

I'm one two..8-0

Reading Kendra's post on how she is a Beckie..I realize that we all have that one thing that we will do pretty much anything for, and if we miss that something it is either for a death in the family, or wife giving birth and our hearts break. But we can just tape or tivo that thing if its on tv and watch it when we get back to our daily routine. Kendra's obsession is listening to Glen Beck.
Mine is watching 24 and listening to the Indians on the radio. Like the trekkies they watch the new show every week. I do the same with 24 and the tribe and i get this close[ } to crying if I miss any of them and something vital happens.
I two try to get all the inside info on the indians and 24 such as new video games and movies for 24..and any trades or signings for the indians.
when listening to the games on the radio i find myself talking to the announcers or laughing out loud with them, or screaming at them..i do that alot for 24 as well now that i think about it. but this does not make me crazy..it just makes me a lover of the sport of fanaticism

Just an observation

I am watching John Q at the moment and I saw a couple of things that i wanted to harp on...
In the opening scene there is a young woman that is driving a car and we never see her whole face. It just sparks my intereste in her..what part does she play in the movie..I mean they would not just have a random lady being hit by a car for no reason you know..its kinda like that guy on home improvement..the one that we never see his whole face..its either covered partly by a fence or there is some other obstruction that keeps us from seeing any part of his face from the nose down.
Another thing I wanted to harp on was the scene where the "Barbie" girl in the hospital scene beats up her boyfriend.
She totally just kicks the living crap out of him and the other hostages in the emergence room cringe in pain and laugh at the worthless bag of dirt that is being run thrown into a erupting volcano that has been dormant for years...i just thought that it showed the human side of the actors..i was able to relate to what was going on..not the man being beat up by his girlfriend and rightfully so..but the people that we're laughing at him..that sounds sorta harsh but its true..i was laughing at him too...

Are You Serious

"Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise.
Her five year mission: to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life
and new civilizations. To boldly go where no man has gone before"...That is what Captain Picard said at the beginning of each episode of Star Trek the Next Generation. Thanks to that series there have been many runoffs of the show such as Voyager, Deep Space Nine, and Enterprise. There have also been many different movies that have been made as well such as Nemesis, First Contact, and not to mention the series of nine from 1980 to 1998. But the one movie that is the least serious of them all is the documentary called "Trekkies".
Now as you all know we had to watch the movie in class and Rudd told us to take the movie seriously and take notes on it. Now i'm not gonna lie I thought I was gonna take it serious the class before because I had never heard of the movie. Wow. The first five minutes of the movie let me know that I was going to be laughing the whole time. The movie focused on the fast growing obsession of the television show. One of the people it focused on was a fifteen year old that was preparing to attend a convention of the show. His father equipped his old car into a space shuttle from the Next Generation Series, and he was able to get some lady that he knows to sew a uniform from the show for him to wear to the convention. Now when everyone saw this there was a huge uproar of laughter and snickering over the amount of time and effort that was required for all of this to happen, and the fact that there are kids our age that would actually want to do something like that. One of the ladies that were talked about wore her uniform to a trial at which she was a in the jury. You would think that if you were called to be in a jury trial that one should wear something appropriate for the occasion not a costume from a television show. Should we take this type of thing seriously. Maybe we should. Its not that far from the football fans that wear ourlandish things to football games and have tailgate parties starting at six in the morning on December 24th. Its not as crazy as some of us may think it to be. I'm sure we all have that something that we go absolute crazy for...star trek just happens to be there's...

The Great Debate

Friday, as we know, we had a debate over which is better the media conglomerates that are on balance..that was the good side..the other side doesn't really matter right now..both sides did bring up some good points and i don't think that both sides were completely correct in the conclusions they came to. you know what no..i believe that the good side won that debate..first of all it was the harder side to choose. the fact that we were had a rebuttle for every idea that they tried to bring up would probably mean that we had the better ending.the debate is more than the people that came to the podium and made jokes..its about the info that the speakers gave. to say that people can't be indivduals is crazy..if this were to be true then there would be no blogger. in my opinion the info of the group that stated how the m.c.'s are on balance won..

Now That's Comedy part deux

And then we have a younger commercial...
The Budweiser commercial that we all saw last year at the superbowl..if for some reason you haven't seen it here is the low down..there is one beer left at this house party, and two guys walk up to the cooler and both of them want it so they decide to have a rock, paper, scissor battle..one guy throws out paper and the other a rock that knocks out the other guy..its really funny when you see it..my writing about it does not give it justice..
The one thing that really grinds my gears though is when there are the commercials that don't really have a meaning to it.. i mean some of the good ones are funny and you know what they are selling at the same time..like the officemax commercials..but then you have some of these like go daddy. com and you don't really know what they are trying to sell so you have to end up watching the commercial fifty times to figure out what is going on..but anywell that's all i've got to say about that..

Now that's comedy

Some of the funniest things happen during the one thing that most television watchers hate the most..commercials. personally, i would think the world we be a much better place without these things that interrupt 24. but i know that without these commercials 24 would not be possible..but anyway back to the topic..some of the older funnier commericals...

there is one i remember for Quizno's Subs. they had this unusuall looking rat type deal and it would sing in a high pitched voice, "We love the subs! 'Cuz they are good to us. The Quiznos subs. They are tasty, they are crunchy, they are warm because they toast them. They got a PEPPER BAR!" when i first saw that commerical i was between freaked out and pee in your pants..that is one of the weirdest commercials that one could ever see..if you wanna check it out you can go to www.visit4info.com quiznos sub..
another old hilarious commercial is the rubberband man commercials for officemax..the two funniest ones that i rememeber are the ones where he is walking through the office, and through a town in the summer. for the one through the office he is walking around with a cart full of different office supplies and is dancing while giving each one out to the workers in the office.
for the summer commercial he is dancing through a city taking away all of the fun things that the kids are playing with and giving them school supplies. and throughout the whole commercial the oldschool rubberbandman song is playing. (that might be a lil oldschool for all you kids out there i know) and you can check this one out at www.visit4info.com keyword officemax. well it looks like that will be the last blog for the week..i'll have to finish this one at another time...

Armed and Ready

i was playing a well known videogame a couple of days ago (HALO 2) and one the guys i was playing with brought up an amazing observation. he said that everyone else was wearing no armor, but the two main characters that you play as are wearing the most. i paused the game and thought about that for a minute. i thought about all of the movies and tv shows and other video games that i played and realized that it is true for most of them. ....

Keifer Sutherland-24- most of the time he goes into a situation with guns blazing with nothing on. unless its an organized thing. at that time he might be wearing a bulletproof vest. but it doesn't matter because Jack eats bullets for breakfast...

Mel Gibson-The Patriot, Braveheart-in both of those movies he kills people with an unorthodox method..no protection..and with a hatchet..that means he is very close to the man he is killing with an easy chance of being shot or stabbed..and he does get stabbed and shot..

Denzel Washington-Deja Vu, Man on Fire- once again he doesn't wear any protection and he ends up getting shot..alot..in both movies he ends up dying at least once because of gunshot wounds..(sorry if i ruined the ending if you have not watched any of these movies)

Commander-Halo 1,2,3-need i say anymore..look at him for crying out loud..he can sleep in a tornado and not feel a thing...that is how you go into battle..with as much armor on and the most powerful weapons you can have..

Thanks for Visiting Hollywood

we had everything we wanted except for the perfect actor for the job. the problem was we could not settle for anything than the best. instead of leaving hollywood with our heads down and our tails between our legs, we walked over to arnold bodybuilder and talked to him for a little while. it turned out that he was not satisfied with the part that he was offered by another writer. we ended up putting arnold in a corner by himself with laura, myself, and the producers surrounding him and we all talked to him about the script that was made for him and he ended up signing the contract with us and everything was settled. towards the end of the class we tried to sign a love interest but she was too stuck up. she said that she did not want to have a back up role with an actor that has never been in a bust. but that was her decision. hopefully the people will like what laura and i came up with and all the people that talked trash about us wil eat their words..

Welcome to Hollywood

so i think that i'll agree with the other thousands of students that have taken the class when i say that the hollywood class is the best fifty minutes we will spend in that classroom. it was fun to be a part of the role playing as everyone was either a writer, agent, actor/actress, and producer. the class gave us a fun way to take some of the things that we had learned in class and actually put those things to work.

i was the partner of laura s. and together we were the beginners luck writers. as the writers we had a list of things we were. one thing on the list was the type of movie we were supposed to write. we knew the type of movie was supposed to be an action flick but we had a tough time coming up with a good story line. we didn't finish in the time that we were given so when everything had been set into motion all the writers and actors/actressess flocked over to the producers with the most money trying to sweettalk their way into getting the producers approval. we took our time trying to come up with a good story, but once we did we realized that we were on the outside looking in because the two producers we hogged up. instead of trying to sweet talk our way into a signing we decided to talk to the producers that had the least amount of money. we were able to get them to sign us and we were on our way to making a movie. 270

unfortunately, it took probably half of the class time to make a script that was up to par with what we wanted and the producers that the actor we wanted, arnold bodybuilder, had already signed with other writers. so laura came up with the brilliant idea of changing the lead around for a female that will kick butt like angelina jolie in tomb raider..334 we looked for Gloria we were able to talk to her before she made her final decision. she did not want to be in another pretty girl movie and the thoughts of going around the globe killing guys interested her very much. we thought that we had found the person for the part, she had us in her final two she choose from, but she decided to sign with some other writers that had already had experience in the field for some stupid reason so we were back to where we started..without a actor...

The Book of Faces

The new semiotic domain that has taken over the world is Facebook. You can put a profile which tells the world all about you. You can put your age, hometown, school, interests, activities, favorites, and relationship status. You can put your favorite pictures up for the friends to see, and the wierd stalker people as well. Messages can be placed on a wall that everyone has in their profile, and for those messages that you don't want others to see you can send those messages too. Different people ask to be your friend from your profile, and there are smaller groups that invite you to be a part in it. Some actually have a point and others don't.

People can join the facebook nation just by signing up for it. Anyone with an email address can. That's probably why so many people have. Facebook started only for the college folk, but after enough bickering from high school kids the Maker's decided to let them in as well. I joined thanks to a friend of mine. I didn't want to have a facebook because I thought it would be an easy place for stalkers to know way to much about me. The day after I took the red pill I realized that it wasn't that bad at all...I was hooked. I spent more time on facebook than I did doing homework. The only way that people can become an expert in the art of facebooking is being on it a lot. There are a lot of different features that take a lot of time to get used to: pictures, making groups, events, and my posts.

Dogme 96

Dogma 95, at the time, may have been a good idea for producers. The main thesis for the movement, in my opinion, was to have a way for producers with not a lot of resources to make a mediocre movie and get it out into the mainstream. The cost of production would be cut drastically when not having to use props, extra sound effects, visual effects, lighting, or cameras. It would make everyone involved with the movie focus more on what is being filmed; actors and moviegoer's alike. Therefore, there would no longer be any movies out there like "Gigly." And not to mention there would be no sex scenes or killing in the movies so anyone could go and watch. The only time that would be used would be the here and now so we would be more focused on what is at hand.
In my opinion though, the idea is horrible. Most of us that go to the movies so we can see the killing, visual effects. We want to be scared so much that we pee in our pants. We want to be able to imagine what the future will be like even though we are not able to fly with cars yet. The visual effects are what make the whole movie. The better that they look, the more the sound effects blow us out of our chairs, the more we will want to go see the movie over again.

Have You Seen Saw?

If you haven't seen saw let me be the first to tell you that it is not for the weak of heart..or stomach. the first two movies use both open and closed frames, but more of the open frames. it is used a lot when there is a scene where someone decides to cut some random part of their body off. i believe that those are the worst parts because you can't see what's going on so your imagination gets the best of you. thoses scenes really freak me out because you know what's going to happen but you cant see it. then again you have the closed scenes where you see people being burned alive, or being decapitated, and those just make you wanna puke.

Of Mice and Men

So two thursdays ago i got the chance to host a prospective student. i was really excited to get the chance because it doesnt happen to often. he called me the night before and asked me some questions about the things that happen on campus and about how excited he was to come. everytime i answered a question he said," oh that's really cool." he finally came on a thursday evening and as we were walking to my dorm he asked me some questions about the campus. as he was talking i remembered answering the same questions the day before. when he came back from celebration i asked him how it was and he said," oh it was really cool." before we went to sleep he had more questions to ask, the same that i answered earlier and to every answer he said,"oh that's really cool." the next morning we headed to breakfast with jon. tristian asked him a couple of questions and they were all the same ones that i had answered the day before. after breakfast we headed back to the barn and he once again told me how excited he was about staying and i said," yeah man that's really cool."

What is Love?

The one place that I could trust to give me information on how to live has let me down. Turning to Disney has given countless of others false hope on how to find love. Lets use Aladdin for example. We all know the story. Two restless, young hearts searching for something to fill an empty feeling in their heart somehow bump into each other in a crowded street. One being a beautiful princess and the other being a worthless street rat. And before you know it Aladdin has Jasmine back at his place. They haven't even known each other for a day. And as we know how the story ends they end up getting married thanks to a flying carpet, monkey, and magic genie. First of all genies and flying carpets don't exist so they can't help you out. A monkey may be able to though.
In Beauty and the Beast, Belle's father gets lost in the middle of nowhere, and is taken captive by a Beast. Belle finds her father, takes his place as captive. They read a book, have a dance, dinner, and a snowball fight. They end up falling in love and living happily ever after. This can be seen in every Disney movie with a princess in it. When are they going to show the real side of love. A guy being turned down by a girl. And since when has everyone in the movie been incredibly good looking. It usually doesn't work that way. Unfortunately, most of us have had to learn the hard way. But if we wish upon a star maybe that dream can finaly come true.
So what is love? Is it just a four letter word? A second hand emotion?

The Universal Language

The older I get, the more I realize that music is a very important part everyone's my life. I use it almost too much. Right now its to the point to where it gets scary. When I am doing homework in my room I either have the radio on, or a CD playing. When I walk to class I have my I-Pod in my ears, and if I don't I am usually singing some song in my head. There's a guy that lives across the hall from me, and he is always complaining because he hears a song that I am singing and the song gets stuck in his head. The stuff that I listen to is very broad. One day I'll be listening to Earth, Wind and Fire, and the next day I'll be listening to Alanis Morissette.
We have that song for when we fall in love, when we get angry we turn to this type of music. When we get happy we listen to this type of music. We may not listen to the same stuff, but it would be very tough to find someone that can say they hate every type of music. Music, like the world, is so diverse. No two types are the same, but it contains a universal language that we all speak.....